1103 耶穌的奴僕
我已經與基督同釘十字架，現在活着的不再是我，乃是基督在我裡面活着；並且我如今在肉身活着，是因信神的兒子而活；他是愛我，為我舍己。《加拉太書2:20》
這些話意味着我親手打破和瓦解我的獨立性，將我的生命降服在主耶穌的至高權柄之下。沒有人能為我做到這一點，我必須親自為之。神或許每年三百六十五次會帶我達到這個地步，但祂不能強迫我過去。那意味着打破我個人脫離神而獨立的堅硬外殼，釋放我自己和我的本性，與祂合一；不跟從自己的想法，而是選擇對耶穌絕對忠誠。一旦我到了那個地步，就不會有誤解的可能。我們很少人知道任何關於效忠基督之事，或理解祂說「…為我的緣故 」（馬太福音5:11）之意；那才會產生堅強的聖徒。
破除我獨立性的時刻到了嗎？其餘的都是宗教欺騙。要決定的一點是——我願放棄嗎？我願降服於耶穌基督，對破除如何來到不設任何條件嗎？我必須破除對自己的理解；當我達到這一點時，超然認同耶穌基督的事實就會立即發生。神的靈的見證是毫無疑問的——「我已經與基督同釘十字架…。」
基督教的熱情來自於有意簽下捨棄我自己的權利，成為耶穌基督的奴僕。除非我這樣做，我就是尚未開始成為聖徒。
一年有一名學生聽到神的呼召，就足以讓神呼召聖經培訓學院的存在；這所學院作為機構是毫無價值，甚至也無學術價值。它存在的唯一價值，是讓神改變那些生命。我們是否願意讓祂自由地使用我們，還是我們更關心自己對未來如何的想法呢？
來自章伯斯的智慧
關於敬畏神的非凡之處，乃是當你敬畏神時，你一無所懼，然而若你不敬畏神，你凡事都怕。「敬畏耶和華的人是有福的。」《至善—朝聖者歌集》
0425 「隨時常作準備」
1103 A Bondservant of Jesus
I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me… —Galatians 2:20
These words mean the breaking and collapse of my independence brought about by my own hands, and the surrendering of my life to the supremacy of the Lord Jesus. No one can do this for me, I must do it myself. God may bring me up to this point three hundred and sixty-five times a year, but He cannot push me through it. It means breaking the hard outer layer of my individual independence from God, and the liberating of myself and my nature into oneness with Him; not following my own ideas, but choosing absolute loyalty to Jesus. Once I am at that point, there is no possibility of misunderstanding. Very few of us know anything about loyalty to Christ or understand what He meant when He said, “…for My sake” (Matthew 5:11). That is what makes a strong saint.
Has that breaking of my independence come? All the rest is religious fraud. The one point to decide is— will I give up? Will I surrender to Jesus Christ, placing no conditions whatsoever as to how the brokenness will come? I must be broken from my own understanding of myself. When I reach that point, immediately the reality of the supernatural identification with Jesus Christ takes place. And the witness of the Spirit of God is unmistakable— “I have been crucified with Christ….”
The passion of Christianity comes from deliberately signing away my own rights and becoming a bondservant of Jesus Christ. Until I do that, I will not begin to be a saint.
One student a year who hears God’s call would be sufficient for God to have called the Bible Training College into existence. This college has no value as an organization, not even academically. Its sole value for existence is for God to help Himself to lives. Will we allow Him to help Himself to us, or are we more concerned with our own ideas of what we are going to be?
WISDOM FROM OSWALD CHAMBERS
The remarkable thing about fearing God is that when you fear God you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God you fear everything else. “Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord”;… The Highest Good—The Pilgrim’s Song Book, 537 L